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Sounds like Paul Ryan’s dreams come true. I’ll leave Trump out of it since he has no vision beyond what’s in front of him and how it affects him.

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If you squint, the upper crust of the tech bro "effective acceleration" aficionados are in here too. Their aversion to **ANY** regulation leads to this.

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Thanks, I think. Hadn’t heard of effective acceleration before. Didn’t get past Wikipedia in exploring before deciding to burrow in and await the AI overlords. Because they’re likely aware of this comment I support them wholeheartedly.

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Yeah, it's pretty alarming. The only thing I found worse as a rabbit hole to dive down was PUA and MRA (PUA = Pick Up Artist, MRA = Men's Rights Activism) that is just some Kentucky fried MAGA/Incel hell

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I’ve come across folks writing about PUA and MRA a few times. So far, haven’t felt victimized enough because of my gender to explore them.

Kentucky fried MAGA/Incel hell sounds like a great album or substack name, tho. Maybe Nugent and Kid Rock could collaborate

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Someone I went to high school with is a PhD Psychologist who does research at UCLA, and he pointed me at the nuttiness of the PUA/MRA world when Eliot Rodgers shot up Isla Vista (the student housing area at UC Santa Barbara).

It was a bleak journey to read about that culture.

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That’s probably where I’d heard of it.

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